Kevin den Dulk

Kevin R. den Dulk is associate professor of political science at Grand Valley State University. He is co-author of Pews, Prayers, and Participation: Religion and Civic Responsibility in America and Religion and Politics in America: Faith, Culture, and Strategic Choices, as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters on religion and public life. As part of his focus on the religious uses of law and courts, he is involved in an international research project on "cause lawyering" and rights-advocacy.

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Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

Justice and rights-talk in liberal democracies

<p></p>Nicholas Wolterstorff’s Justice: Rights and Wrongs is a profoundly ambitious book.  His normative aspiration is nothing less than “speaking up for the wronged of the world” by reorienting contemporary thinking on rights and justice. … But what about the practice of liberal democracy?  What would it mean to govern so that members of a society can “enjoy the goods to which they have a right”?  Justice is not a book of practical application, but it is clearly on Wolterstorff’s mind.

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